Bug#662049: phonon: There is no sound at all - audio device is greyed out in configuration

["dE ." <de.techno@gmail.com>]

On 03/04/12 02:31, Grzegorz Andruszkiewicz wrote:
> Package: phonon
> Version: 4:4.6.0.0-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> After recent upgrade of packages sound stopped working. Sound control in KDE
> and Phonon configuration in the settings dialog only show Dummy as the active
> output device. My real device "Internal Audio Analog Stereo" (internal
> soundcard in my Intel chipset) is greyed out.
>
> This occurs on both my laptop and desktop (both Intel, but different chipsets
> otherwise). I tried booting into an old kernel, but it hasn't changed anything.
> I haven't seen anything suspicious in the log files (but I don't know what I am
> looking for).
>
> Regards,
> Grzegorz
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>    APT prefers testing
>    APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages phonon depends on:
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                      1.5.41
> ii  libphonon4                                 4:4.6.0.0-1
> ii  phonon-backend-gstreamer [phonon-backend]  4:4.6.0.0-1
>
> phonon recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages phonon suggests:
> pn  phonon-backend-gstreamer  4:4.6.0.0-1
> pn  phonon-backend-mplayer<none>
> pn  phonon-backend-vlc<none>
>
> -- debconf information:
>    phonon-backend-null/isnt_functional:
>    phonon-backend-null/isnt_functional_title:

Do you have pulseaudio installed?

If so, is there any 'pulse*' process running?

How about making a new user and logging in it to see if sound works? Was 
there a kernel upgrade?